Olen

Where Olen comes from

Olen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1916
    Peak, #420
    178 babies named Olen — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #692.
  4. 1970
    Olen Steinhauer born
    American writer
  5. 2003
    Olen Zellweger born
    Canadian ice hockey player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Olen Steinhauer · American writer, born 1970
  • Olen Zellweger · Canadian ice hockey player, born 2003
  • Olen Cesari · Albanian violinist, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.